College Football

NIL is pay-to-play. Has been since day one. 

Meanwhile normal students take on tens of thousands in debt to go to the same school, to actually get a degree.

I refuse to watch college football.

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Still better than when the players weren’t being paid at all, while it became a multi-billion dollar business on their backs (and they got punished for even seeming to take a gift or trying to monetize a YouTube channel)

There are also a lot of non-scholarship football players because rosters are so large

Now they get all of that plus money. 

And it’s not just college football. Athletes from much smaller sports have the ability to monetize their NIL with no chance of ever entering a professional sport or the minor leagues of a professional sport (think gymnastics, track, etc). 

Plus, there isn’t really a minor leagues for professional football

Strong disagree. Hundreds of thousands in free tuition, lodging, books, private tutors, food, clothes, transportation. I can go on. “On their backs” is wild turn of phrase. They’re amateur athletes, at least were. This is why minor leagues exist. Universities just don’t want to give up the money, but it doesn’t make it right.